"Tom Wolfe will carry the memory to his grave. One night in 1968, shortly after the publication of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which cemented his reputation as one of the fathers of new journalism, the author agreed to take a ride..."

"On one of those muggy summer mornings that makes Pittsburgh feel more like New Orleans, Johnny Majors leans forward in his desk chair and recites the tidy little list to which he has reduced his rage..."